PowerCADD Forum

Matt_A wrote: ↑

Mon May 02, 2022 5:53 am

my question is which is funnier, decimal inches or decimal feet?

Decimal feet is standard in civil engineering. Don’t tell me you’ve never seen a surveyors tape with tenths of a foot marks.

That wasn’t a technical pen - it’s a Pilot ball-liner, just the pen that happened to be in my desk. I was surprised it performed as well as it did.

I received this pen plotter as a gift, and I am trying to think about some fun things to do with it. A pen plotter is a bit of a throwback, but its interesting and very accessible. It does not have a flat bed, so you just tape down a piece of paper in front of it, and the pen holder can hold just ab...

I’ve internalized this process - when I’m drafting I keep a TextEdit document open in plain text format. Anything coming into PowerCadd is first pasted into TextEdit and converted to plain text, copied again comes into PowerCadd and adopts the existing styles. Only takes a moment.

I found that Cisco uses little pictograms that are not line drawings. The ones I found were all bitmap icons. And there is literally like a hundred different symbols. I'm not sure it makes sense to add these to a tool palette. Perhaps better just as a symbol library. A lot of the symbols were for ne...

Does anybody have a PowerCadd library of standard CISCO IT equipment symbols?

I'm doing an IT + AV plan and need to show locations of basic elements:

– ethernet ports

– wireless routers

– projectors and screens

– video panels, teleconferencing bars

– ethernet phone handsets

If there is no PowerCadd, then there is no WildTools. And if PowerCadd does not move forward to current OS versions, then as far as I’m concerned there is no PowerCadd. There is no choice for me. I need PowerCadd, with or without WildTools. I used it for years without WildTools, and I’d gladly do so...

RTCool wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 22, 2022 5:02 pm

Acrobat Pro which has a function to compress the file size.

FWIW Apple’s Preview can do this as well, and it’s possible to set up presets with different degrees of compression vs quality which you can then choose from the dialog menu for exporting.

Currently downloading SketchupPro free trial. before launching into an explanation of how to export elevations, sections, or plans, I suspect that the SU free trial will not allow you to export DWG files. I may be wrong about that, but if not you'll have to subscribe or ask the prior architect to g...

patrickm wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 02, 2021 2:00 am

I think it is in the Utilities folder within the PowerCADD application folder.

definitely not in mine, but maybe my install is very old at this point.